The Toronto event Totsapalooza, put on by Small Print, brings together indie rockers, children’s authors, and tots for a day of dancing, stories, and crafts.
Nadia Hohn: Remembering diverse-kidlit hero and Groundwood publisher Sheila Barry
It was July 9, 2011, and I was attending a workshop on writing for children hosted in the backyard of A Different Booklist bookstore in Toronto.
Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers hires John Martz as art director
Toronto cartoonist, illustrator, and designer John Martz has been hired as art director at Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers.
Oliver Jeffers’s new book is what the world needs now
The bestselling children’s author-illustrator tries something new – unapologetically so.
2017 Books of the Year: Librarians’, book bloggers’, and booksellers’ kidlit and YA picks
Librarians, book bloggers, and booksellers weigh in with their favourite children’s books of the year.
Q&A: Cherie Dimaline on her award-winning week
The author of The Marrow Thieves found out she won the $50,000 Kirkus Prize as she was searching her desk for loose change for transit.
Celebrating Margie Wolfe of Second Story Press
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre brought together the publishing industry to honour a long-time feminist, social justice activist, and kidlit icon.
Q&A: Melanie Florence on her new picture book; worst-case scenarios; and going commercial
While Melanie Florence has written multiple works of fiction and non-fiction for children, the picture book genre is still new to her. It’s also where she’s having the greatest success.
Why Orca Books published Monique Gray Smith’s Speaking Our Truth
When Andrew Wooldridge, publisher at Orca Book Publishers, heard Marie Wilson, a commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, speak at the annual general meeting for the Association of Canadian Publishers last year, an idea took root.
Drawn & Quarterly opens second bookstore, this time for kids
Montreal graphica publisher Drawn & Quarterly opened its first designated children’s bookstore at the beginning of October, in honour of the tenth anniversary of its first store, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
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